How many times have you tried to come up with a creative way to reuse toilet paper rolls, but ended up recycling them instead? Well French artist <a href="http://www.anastassia-elias.com/" target="_blank">Anastassia Elias</a> figured out a way to transform old paper rolls into charming miniature worlds. From zoos to soccer games to beauty parlors to tango lessons, Elias' <a href="http://www.anastassia-elias.com/view-album/10" target="_blank">Rouleaux</a> project features diorama-like depictions of sweet simple moments. When backlit with a simple light, the rolls become action scenes that you wish you could slip into yourself.

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Toilet Paper Art-Anastassia Elias

<a href="http://www.anastassia-elias.com/" target="_blank">Anastassia Elias</a> is a painter, illustrator and a collage artist and her Rouleaux dioramas are just one of her many talents.

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Toilet Paper Art-Anastassia Elias

She creates tiny scenes inside the tube by attaching paper cutouts the side walls with glue and tweezers.

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Toilet Paper Art-Anastassia Elias

The placement of her characters and objects creates a 3D scene and when lit up, light travels through the tube to create motion and shadow.

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Toilet Paper Art-Anastassia Elias

As Elias <a href="http://oddstuffmagazine.com/miniature-art-on-toilet-paper-rolls-by-anastasia-elias.html" target="_blank">says</a> “I cut the small paper shapes that I stick inside the toilet paper rolls. "

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Toilet Paper Art-Anastassia Elias

"I use tweezers to manipulate the paper shapes. I select the paper of the same color as the roll. It gives the illusion that the paper figures make part of the roll. I need few hours to make one piece.”

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Toilet Paper Art-Anastassia Elias

Her scenes run the gambit of a family shopping, visiting the zoo, nature scenes, children playing, a grandma sleeping, painters painting, someone getting their hair done, a soccer game and even an exciting boxing match.

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Toilet Paper Art-Anastassia Elias

These miniature works or art are so well crafted one could almost imaging stepping into them, or at least a stop motion video.

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Toilet Paper Art-Anastassia Elias

FILE D'ATTENTE

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Toilet Paper Art-Anastassia Elias

GRAND NORD. CHOUETTE

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Toilet Paper Art-Anastassia Elias

GRAND NORD. RENNE

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Toilet Paper Art-Anastassia Elias

SALON DE COIFFURE

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Toilet Paper Art-Anastassia Elias

Passage piéton en tube. Odeur de gaz d’échappement

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BALANÇOIRE

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Toilet Paper Art-Anastassia Elias

How many times have you tried to come up with a creative way to reuse toilet paper rolls, but ended up recycling them instead? Well French artist Anastassia Elias figured out a way to transform old paper rolls into charming miniature worlds. From zoos to soccer games to beauty parlors to tango lessons, Elias' Rouleaux project features diorama-like depictions of sweet simple moments. When backlit with a simple light, the rolls become action scenes that you wish you could slip into yourself.